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March 8, 2013

Remembrance

After many years, two former school friends meet by chance. Or do they? Deborah — a high-flying corporate lawyer, now living in New York — remembers a sequence of events one way, while Ben — a travel writer and campaigning journalist — remembers them another. But why? What they uncover is more disturbing than anything they could have ever imagined. Continue reading →
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Published on March 08, 2013 21:51

January 21, 2013

Project Status — Perdition’s End

Perdition’s End is taking significantly longer to develop than I'd anticipated (for a number of reasons), but it is progressing. Continue reading →
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Published on January 21, 2013 11:28

November 7, 2012

So you’re an author. And?

Just in case anyone was wondering why their talents aren't attracting the successes they imagined. It's a topic I've often considered myself, and I have a theory... Continue reading →
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Published on November 07, 2012 07:26

November 3, 2012

Goodbye post-modernism! Say hello to the post-apocalyptic aesthetic!

A photographic collection of high-tech crack dens and post-apocalyptic survivalist home offices, gone wrong. If this is how the world is supposed to end, you can keep your damn armageddon!
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Published on November 03, 2012 23:57

Project Status — Perdition’s End

Once again working on the “chronology” for Perdition’s End, which is the continuation of a major story arc and the first of a tetralogy. And so the Continuum takes shape…
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Published on November 03, 2012 00:35

October 30, 2012

Stacks of fun!

I can’t say Ready Player One by Ernest Cline blew me away, because I found it to be quite chaotic and a lot of a jumble. However, kudus to Cline for emulating — in a very literal sense — his … Continue reading →
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Published on October 30, 2012 08:19

Project Status — Remembrance

Remembrance is moving along and is almost complete. Kind of. Continue reading →
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Published on October 30, 2012 08:19

October 27, 2012

Creating your own author platform

Hey, if you — like me — are just starting your career as an author, you might want to consider building your own platform. Continue reading →
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Published on October 27, 2012 09:19

October 25, 2012

Morgan Freeman is dead

Morgan Freeman is dead. Again. If anyone is any doubt, just check his Wikipedia page, because if he really had died, the Wiki faeries would have swooped in and sprinkled pixie dust on his date of departure from the land of the living between one blink of the beating heart of the internet and the next. Continue reading →
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Published on October 25, 2012 07:07

October 23, 2012

Post a book announcement to Goodreads Groups

I know most other authors won't know the first thing about this HTML web programming nonsense. I wouldn't expect you to, either. Sadly, Goodreads do, which is a crying shame... Continue reading →
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Published on October 23, 2012 11:03